Commentary: I remember being moved as a young teen by the depiction of the explorers who came from Europe to the “New World.” The Man from St. Malo, a fictionalized account of one of these explorers – Champlain I believe – came to me as I considered the latest news of the collapse of the ecosystem that we are currently witnessing. His dependence on the river to navigate what he perceived as a new world seemed an appropriate metaphor for our current plight.